Lèse Majesté

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Thanapol Eawsakul, editor and founder of Fah Diew Gahn (Same Sky) news magazine, a tri-monthly Thai-language publication, was arrested on July 5, 2014, in a Bangkok café, according to news reports. He was held on a seven-day detention order, the maximum period allowable without a trial under martial law, and released on July 9, 2014.

New York, May 27, 2014--Military authorities in Thailand should
immediately release a local journalist who was taken into military custody on
Sunday after being summoned for questioning, the Committee to Protect
Journalists said today.

Bangkok, August 9, 2013--A Thai journalist has been harassed and
questioned today in connection with comments he posted to his personal Facebook
page in early Augustthat speculated about a possible military coup,
according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Thai
authorities to drop the criminal investigation against Sermsuk Kasitpradit and to refrain
broadly from curbing freedom of expression over the Internet.

At online discussion sites all over the world, comments are
posted on the Web as soon as they are written. People argue, inform, express
anger, and voice fears. Some say things in the heat of the moment that they
might go on to regret. Others are elliptical and obscure. The enabling of such
conversations is an important modern method of discovering and re-telling the
news, and encourages previously uninvolved readers of the news to help gather
and disseminate it--especially in times when traditional media is censored or
afraid.